Religious and spiritual tourism

Trono, Anna

doi:10.4324/9780429201011-36

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“…Some studies (e.g., Hope & Jones, 2014) have even suggested that secular people are more concerned about human responsibility and willing to change and act against environmental risks than religious people who rely on divine power and intervention. However, given the ethical, moral, and spiritual commitment and prescription, the current findings align with most studies that assert that pilgrims’ activities have the potential to positively reinforce green innovative behavior (Gutsche, 2019; Rahmawati et al, 2019; Trono, 2021). Therefore, this study argued that pilgrimage practices could promote green innovative behavior driven by spiritual adherence and an innate drive to follow religious rules and guidelines.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…Religious tourism, or “tourism to sites of current and/or previous religious significance” (Hughes et al, 2013, p. 210), is one of the fastest-growing tourism sectors in terms of tourist flows and revenue (Olsen & Esplin, 2020; Yu et al, 2021). In addition, several studies argue that religion plays a significant role in the environment because it conveys meanings, values, actions, motivations, and strategies that positively support sustainable development (Rahmawati et al, 2019; Trono, 2021). In the 1980s, for example, scholars began to examine the relationship between religion and environmental sustainability.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Although there is an urgent need to explore tourism’s contribution to the environment, little research has been conducted on green innovation in tourism, particularly in pilgrimage tourism. Existing studies on religious and pilgrimage tourism have examined its environmental impact from the perspective of a single stakeholder, either the tourist (i.e., the demand side) or religious organizations (i.e., the supply side; Kim et al, 2020; Shin & Preston, 2021; Trono, 2021). Demand-side studies, for example, focus on pilgrims’ perceptions and attitudes about social and environmental responsibility.…”

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The Greener, the Better? Probing Green Innovation in Pilgrimage Tourism Destinations

Senbeto

2023

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research

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This study examines the importance of pilgrimage tourism to green innovation and assesses the factors that influence pilgrimage tourism efforts and implementation to ensure green innovation. The results of semi-structured, in-depth interviews with religious figures and pilgrims, supplemented by secondary sources, show that linking pilgrimage capabilities and religious organizations is critical to sustaining green innovation rather than focusing on the dispersed state of consciousness. The findings underscore the importance of a practice-based teaching approach and the necessity of spiritual adherence to green innovative behavior. It is argued that the intersection between pilgrims and religious organizations supports the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2030 in less developed nations, such as in Africa. The study is helpful for destination management organizations, policymakers, and tourism stakeholders, to promote green innovation through pilgrimage tourism.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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The Greener, the Better? Probing Green Innovation in Pilgrimage Tourism Destinations

Senbeto

2023

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research

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“…The choice of promotional strategies is therefore highly important. They must aim to respect the religious motives that generate religious travel in the first place; incentivise forms of partnership between the secular and religious spheres; strengthen participation and the capacity for acting on a local level; guarantee the quality and efficiency of the goods and services on offer; and, last but not least, analyse and assess the cultural and economic results in quantitative and qualitative terms (Trono 2020).…”

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Heritage Sites, Devotion, and Quality Enhancement in Tourism: The Promotion and Management of Ancient Marian Places of Worship along the Appian Way in Puglia and Basilicata

Oliva,

Trono

2023

Religions

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Religious tourism is a significant and growing field of tourism that overlaps with cultural tourism. It has the potential to improve the quality of life of those who live in places of faith or along routes of spiritual interest. Religious tourism involves a complex interplay of spiritual and economic motivations. Effective religious tourism management requires respect for spiritual values, partnerships, local engagement, and quality assessment. Devotional practices have evolved from medieval spiritual care to communal expressions and periodic rituals. This paper specifically analysed the characteristics of the Marian cult and pilgrimage flows to places of Marian faith. It examined their value potential from a religious and cultural perspective and their role as a particular attractor of experiential and quality tourism generated by the territorial context. The area of reference is the region of Puglia, which has often played the role of cultural bridge with the eastern coasts of the Mediterranean in the past. The second part of the paper focuses on the proposed itinerary along the Appian Way in its final route between Puglia and Basilicata. Marian shrines were sometimes the cause and sometimes the evidence of the cultural and economic poles that characterised the medieval and modern variants of this ancient road route. The study outlines a serial path that integrates the usual settlement or infrastructural levels of territorial knowledge with the Marian theme, which was analysed diachronically. An operational track in the contemporary territorial dimension emerged from the correlation of both the stratigraphic reading of the landscape and the interpretation of material and immaterial cultural heritage. This track aims to aggregate and promote the sustainable rediscovery of those places, which are largely cut off from the routes of mass tourism, in adherence to the most recent European and local cultural and landscape guidelines.

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“…The unclear borders between the different definitions of pilgrimage and religious or spiritual tourism, which animated the initial local debate, do not constitute an issue from an analytical point of view: this enriches the challenging components of the tourist/pilgrim divide. Albeit the present case study will add to the discussion on how spiritual and religious references created a tourist attraction that is basically a religious attraction [2], it is also important to consider the path from the perspective of its environmental [3] and socio-economic [4] sustainability.…”

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Religious Tourist Attractions and Ecological Concerns in the Italian Dolomites: The Case of the Trekking of the Thinking Christ

Rech

2022

Sustainability

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The article examines the mobilisation of a local community after the creation of a religious attraction and a popular mountain trail in a protected and fragile context. Despite much research on the topic, the boundaries between spiritual or religious tourism and pilgrimage are still quite complicated. The research questions focused on the social reasons behind the growing invention and reinvention of religious places outside of liturgical celebrations and religious practices. Through a case study, the question of whether/how a religious attraction can give new meaning to a mountain tourist spot on the border of a UNESCO World Natural Heritage List Site is addressed, while also raising ecological issues.

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Religious and spiritual tourism

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The Greener, the Better? Probing Green Innovation in Pilgrimage Tourism Destinations

The Greener, the Better? Probing Green Innovation in Pilgrimage Tourism Destinations

Heritage Sites, Devotion, and Quality Enhancement in Tourism: The Promotion and Management of Ancient Marian Places of Worship along the Appian Way in Puglia and Basilicata

Religious Tourist Attractions and Ecological Concerns in the Italian Dolomites: The Case of the Trekking of the Thinking Christ

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